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Windows Vista Released. IE7 Released.

Microsoft rolls out Vista RTM (Release to Manufacturing) and Internet Explorer 7. Have yet to play around with Vista yet, but what I have heard are good reviews. I would give it some time before jumping into the scene so that major bugs could be fixed.

I have personally tried Internet Explorer and went back to Internet Explorer 6 after about 20 minutes of playing with it. I have so much complaints that I have created a article - Why Internet Explorer 7 Sucks - just to list them.

In fact, I am now using a variation of IE6. Maxthon. If you are a hardcore IE6 fan, try Maxthon 1 (not Maxthon2, which sucks like IE7). It supports multiple tabs, doesn't have any buttons on the tab rows and best of all, uses the fast IE engine to render pages.

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Reason not to use IE:
1.while you`re visiting a websitte everything is loaded, then saved in the same format as it were taken. If you have visited a virusedd adress, it mean that IE is downloading the viruses 2. Try firefox, or opera, much reliable than IE.
2. IE block some scripts, even java script for a mouse over effect.
3. It doesn`t have usable addons. Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey has a lot, even imacro, flashblock, image block, addblock...and so on.
4. If you have a lower conection, you`ll probably notice that sometime IE didn`t load all page, or it load much more slower than other browser. I made a test and i saw that opera is loading faster a web adress.
5. Other browsers may be customized on a larger scale.(for firefox you can find guidnance how to sped it up in some situations).
6. Every year more webdesigner are testing their webpages on other browsers than iE.
7. list can continue..

...and about vista.
If you have windows vista in other language it will affect other programs. For example, i cannot set mysql and php for a vista in italian. In english it works properly, but in italian don`t. And if you need a language pagace, it will cost you other 200€.
My vista use 9Gb space for itself, and 3-5Gb for each user`s settings.